Proud mummy time!!!!

I've had trouble getting J to sleep and to stay asleep for months. It's required me to stay in the bedroom with him while he goes to sleep, just so that he gets to sleep at a reasonable time. Then when he wakes in the night he has come straight into me and more often than not ended up in bed with me because I have simply been too tired to take him back to his own.

Not any more!!!! While he was at his dads over Easter I caught up on some much needed sleep and watched the Bedtime Live programme on channel 4. I decided I needed to do something cos having had a week of sleep I felt like a new woman. I started by putting J to bed then going into another room to do the ironing, leaving his door open so that he could see me. I refused to speak to him if he called out, just replied, it's bedtime. Well I caught up on the ironing and j got used to me not being in the room with him. Then I took it a step further and started to go downstairs when I left him. I also put a clock in his bedroom and explained that he could only come into me if the clock had a six at the start. He quickly got used to me being downstairs, but was still coming into me in the night. I just took him back to his own bed. On Monday I woke up at half five without a little body in the bed with me and it was the first time I'd woken since going to sleep! When j came into me he said that he woke up but the clock said 4 so he got Fred (the ted!) and snuggled back down to sleep! Success. For the past three nights now I have not been woken by him. I did hear him at two this morning, but he never came into me. He now happily goes to sleep on his own at night, shouting night night love you as I walk out the room. I am so proud of him! He is proud of himself as well. It has earned him a special treat from the Lego shop and I have said we will get rid of his baby clock, he has one of these Gro clocks where a picture of the sun comes up, and get him a big boy clock. He is also a much happier little boy because he is getting a good nights sleep. We both are!!!!!